[STEM-funding] OSU O&E workshops; Dreyfus Foundation; NSF GARDE; NIH SEPA; NSB/NSF task force report

Tue May 20 11:40:43 EDT 2014

*1) Outreach and Engagement Scholarship workshops:*  The Ohio State
University Office of Outreach and the Engagement and the Engagement
Scholarship Consortium are co-sponsoring a one-day series of three
mini-workshops on May 22 from 9 am–4 pm in Hale Hall, 154 W. 12th Ave (see
http://outreach.osu.edu/for-faculty-and-staff/2014workshop.html). "Building
Capacity for Outreach and Engagement Scholarship" includes three 2-hour
sessions to enhance capacity for creating and strengthening
university-community partnerships and promoting engagement scholarship
through teaching, research and service. Registration is limited to 50
participants per session, and participants may register for one, two, or
all three sessions. For more information, contact Mark McCann at
mccann.249 at osu.edu or phone (614) 247-1939.

*2) The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation's Special Grant Program in the
Chemical Sciences* (
http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/special_grant_program_chemical.shtml):

The Foundation encourages proposals that are judged likely to significantly
advance the chemical sciences. Examples of areas of interest include (but
are not limited to): the increase in public awareness, understanding, and
appreciation of the chemical sciences; innovative approaches to chemistry
education at all levels (K-12, undergraduate, and graduate); and efforts to
make chemistry careers more attractive. Research proposals are not
customarily considered.

Initial inquiry letters are due June 5, and proposals are due August 18. No
funding limit is specified, but current grant recipients have awards
ranging from $6500 to $100,000.

*3) NSF General & Age Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE):* The GARDE
program "supports fundamental engineering research that will lead to the
development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with
disabilities." Garde also supports undergraduate engineering design
projects (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501021):

...especially those that provide prototype "custom-designed" devices or
software for persons with disabilities.  These projects are designed to
enhance the education of undergraduate engineering students.  Undergraduate
engineering design projects to aid persons with disabilities include:

   - A design experience for the engineering student that will directly aid
   a specific individual with a disability.
   - Undergraduate student engineers or engineering technology students
   develop prototype "custom-designed" devices and software.
   - The PI and the students work with institutions providing care or
   education for individuals with disabilities.

Proposals are due October 31, 2014. Undergraduate Engineering Design
Projects are typically funded at $25,000 per year for three to five years.

*4) NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25): *The next round
of the National Institute of Heath's SEPA program (
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-228.html)
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-206.html>is coming up.
>From the funding opportunity description:

The goal of the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program is to
invest in educational activities that complement or enhance the training of
a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical
research needs. SEPA encourages interactive partnerships between biomedical
and clinical researchers and P-12 pre-service and in-service teachers
(Teachers), schools and other interested organizations.  SEPA supports
diversity in the workforce by providing opportunities for students from
underserved communities to consider careers  in basic or clinical research,
provides teachers with professional development in science content and
teaching skills and improves community health literacy through its science
centers and museum exhibits.   Applications that target P-12 or ISE topics
that may not be addressed by existing school, community or ISE-based
activities are encouraged.

Awards may be for up to 5 years and direct costs are limited to $250,000
annually. Full proposals are due July 30, and letters of intent are due "30
days before application due date."

*5) NSB task force report:* A report has been released by National Science
Board task force that solicited investigator and institution feedback about
reducing investigators' administrative workload for federally funded
research (http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsb1418). In
regard to the NSF "Broader Impacts" merit criterion, the task force's
recommendations (p. 69) include:

   - Clarify requirements for the Broader Impacts criterion and integrate
   these requirements into the research description rather than isolating them
   in a separate section.
   - “Broader impacts” should be consolidated with “intellectual merit” to
   make a common total merit standard.
   - NSF should provide a clear definition of necessary minimums for
   outreach and education required to meet the Broader Impacts criterion.

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